Shade bracket



Sept. 21 1926.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

wrLLIAM P. TALBOT, on BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHADE BRACKET.

Application filed March 1, 1926. Serial No. 91,371.

This invention relates to improvements in rolled up and an arcuate rolling and fulshade holders or brackets and the main obcrum or pivot surface 16 upon which the ject of the invention is to provide such a spring shaft 6 rolls and pivots when chang-' bracket that will prevent the end of the ing from one position to the other.

shade roller from leaving the bracket acci- It will be noted that due to the angularity 45 dentally. of the abutting-surfaces to the entranceslot Another object of the invention is to proand the pivot surface 16 the shaft 6 cannot vide such a bracket with a combined rolling accidentally leave the bracket 7 when in and fulcrum surface for the spring shaft either position or while changing from one of the shade roller. position to the other, as the tendency is to 50 A further object of the invention is to fall against the abutment 12 by gravity or provide a shade roller bracket having against abutment 14 by the action of the shoulders or abutments for maintaining the spring. v I

' shade roller spring shaft at an angular posi From the foregoing it will be seen that I tion with a slot in the bracket through have provided a shade roller bracket that 55 which the shade roller may be inserted or will at all times prevent the accidental disremoved. Further objects and novel feaplacement of the shade therefrom. I tures of my invention will become apparent Having described my invention what I as the specification proceeds. claim as new is In the drawings forming a part of this 1. A window shade bracket having a slot 60 I specification adapted to receive the end of a shade roller Figure 1 is a front view in elevationof a shaft, an upper and lower abutmentagainst portion of a Window shade in connection which the shaft normally rests disposed at with my improved spring shaft holder or an angle to the entrance slot, and a second bracket. set of abutments intersecting the first men- 65 Fig. 2 is a section taken in line 2-2 tioned abutments at a point intermediate of Fig. 1. their ends against which the shaft is held Referring to the drawing in detail in While being rolled up. I

which like numerals refer to like parts 2. A window shade bracket having a slot throughout the different views, 5 indicates adapted to receive the end of a shade roller 70 a portion of a shade having the usual spring shaft, an upper and lower abutment against shaft 6 fitting into a bracket 7 fixed to a which the shaft normally rests disposed at window frame 8. The bracket 7 comprises an angle to the entrance slot, a second set base extensions 9 a shaft housing 10 having of abutments intersecting the first mentioned an entrance slot 11 and abutments 12 and abutments at a point intermediate their ends 7 13 against which the shaft 6 normally rests against which the shaft is held while being and also when the shade is being drawn rolled up, and an arcuate rolling and pivot abutments 14 and 15 against which the shaft surface joining the lower abutments in each 6 is held by the action of the shade roller set.

40 spring (not shown) when the shade is being WILLIAM P. TALBOT. 

